Words to live by: Famous women on life and love

"A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after." —Gloria Steinem

"I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes." —Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Good sex is like good Bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.” —Mae West

"I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart." —Alice Walker

"...what I have learned for myself is that I don't have to be anybody else; and that myself is good enough; and that when I am being true to that self, then I can avail myself to extraordinary things such as this, you know, that I didn't think was necessarily possible...and I think that's the thing. You have to allow for the impossible to be possible."—Lupita Nyong'o

“The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.” —Nora Ephron

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” —Maya Angelou